Germany's fleet policy and Britain's likely alignment

How might British alignment have changed if Germany had not pursued a fleet challenge?

Britain could have leaned toward Germany against France and Russia, because German naval construction made Germany itself the maritime threat.

Without a German fleet challenge, Britain could have treated the Franco-Russian combination as the more dangerous maritime rival. It might then have supported Germany in a continental war or entered on the German side. By building a navy designed to compete with the Royal Navy, Germany turned a potential source of British sea power into an opponent. In this interpretation, Tirpitz's programme was strategically self-defeating even though it increased German strength when ships are counted in isolation.